Things you hear about computing... Please share your experiences...

We were discussing things uninformed users say about computers that are sad, humorous, and scary. Note, that these can be completely valid from a user's experiences, but technically wrong. We remembered a couple of really good ones:

It was back in the Win95 days and the registry would get bigger and bigger and slow down the computer over time. Yes, software is does play a huge role here. I do like it though that when I upgrade my computer I can turn up the settings on games and have a nicer visual experience with the same game.

As one N. Wirth stated: 'Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.'

It's pathetic. When I paid £49 for a ZX-81, or even £200-odd for a BBC micro, you switched the switch on and the OS/command prompt was there within 1 second. Now? Buy another new machine. and it's still ridiculous. Also, similar with a Sky satellite TV box. No excuses. I'd far rather go back to the old days. Oh, also, a "mouse driver" (when they arrived) used to fit inside like a couple of hundred bytes.

As one N. Wirth stated: 'Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.'

Oh no! He quoted Wirth...

Nicklaus Wirth, the designer of PASCAL, gave a talk once at which he was asked How do you pronounce your name?'' He replied,You can either call me by name, pronouncing it Veert', or call me by value,Worth'.'' One can tell immediately from this comment that Nicklaus Wirth is a Quiche Eater. -- Real Programmers Dont Use PASCAL, Datamation, July 1983

One of the things that makes me see red is when QA or cyber security folks actually state that an embedded network device with no keyboard or display may not automatically log in. According to their policy it must be manually started by authenticated login at every power cycle.

@aha_1980
No, actually the cores are (of course) cross-platform, it's the fact that that site only provides a .msi installer that is Windows only. If you have Linux then you must run Wine and from there you can install via the .msi to increase the CPUs available to your Linux.

Here is another one:Black Computers are Faster
Back in the 90s newer computers, especially Dells, were all black. So someone wrote an email about the physics of why black computers are faster.
I am not sure if this is the original, but it is funny.